Source: http://www.statesmanjournal.com, July 17, 2017 By: Tracy Loew A massive fuel spill on Highway 99W near Adair Village has caused traffic detours and delays for the past 10 days as the state clears contaminated soil and repairs the road. But Monday the situation worsened. Managers at the nearby E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area found out fuel contamination has spread […]

Source: http://roughnotes.com, July 5, 2017 By: Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU Judging from the rhetoric of the 2016 U.S. political campaign, one might have expected to see cranes and other heavy equipment popping up like weeds throughout the American landscape. At times, it seemed that there was only one thing most Americans and the major political […]

Read here about a 50,000 gallon oil spill in Texas that occurred after a contractor cut an underground pipeline.

Source: https://www.irmi.com, July 2017 By: Jeff Slivka, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC Over the past year, questions have increasingly emerged about construction specifications and the subsequent professional liability exposures they pose to contractors. First, it’s important to identify the two basic types of construction specifications: design and performance. Design Specifications The most common concerns prescriptive […]

Source: http://www.utilitydive.com, July 17, 2017 By: Robert Walton The Associated Press reports Tennessee health officials are investigating high levels of arsenic and lead found under a coal generating plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, but so far, they believe there is no threat to local drinking water. Groundwater under the Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis […]

Source: http://wvmetronews.com, July 13, 2017 By: Carrie Hodousek Charleston’s Yeager Airport has entered into a partial settlement with an engineering firm it sued following the 2015 hillside collapse at the end of the airport’s main runway. Yeager’s Resolution Committee announced Thursday it has settled with Triad Engineering, Inc. for $900,000. “It releases the officers and […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 12, 2017 By: Carly Miller, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP In a recent Missouri appellate decision, the court recognized and reaffirmed the Spearin Doctrine which provides that an owner impliedly warrants the adequacy of plans and specifications it provides to a contractor. In Penzel Construction v. Jackson R-2 School District et al., […]

Source: https://www.environmentalleader.com, July 13, 2017 By: Jennifer Hermes An Ontario-based dry cleaning company has been fined several thousands of dollars for violations of tetrachloroethylene regulations. The chemical, a chemical used in dry cleaning that has been linked to cancer, can enter the soil and eventually into groundwater. Peter’s Drive-In Cleaners has been fined a total […]

Source: http://www.ecmweb.com, December 1, 2008 By: Leonard Greene, P.E., Orbital Engineering and Consulting Maintenance technician makes shocking discovery while performing routine service call on middle school’s A/C unit. When the work order came across his desk, it seemed like any other routine maintenance call to the school district’s service technician — certainly nothing out of […]

It’s too risky for tens of thousands of children in the San Joaquin Valley to drink water at their schools due to chronic contamination by chemica Reef-Sunset Unified School District Superintendent David East is worried about water. Not because of the drought – record rains this past winter ended five years of dry times. Rather, […]

Source: http://www.stltoday.com, July 10, 2017 By: Bryce Gray Stormwater from just outside the fence line of the West Lake Landfill complex, the dumping ground for Manhattan Project-era radioactive waste, contains a variety of radioactive isotopes, according to test results released late last month by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The sampling of stormwater overflow, […]

Source: https://patch.com, July 11, 2017 By: Brendan Krisel The city Department of Health tested every cooling tower in Lenox Hill after a June outbreak that sickened eight, killing one. After testing every cooling tower in the Lenox Hill neighborhood following a June outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, the city Department of Health found that more than […]